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Far Cry 2 - Play The Game You Want To Play

Far Cry 2 looks like the sort of game I could get completely lost in. Looking at the scenic environments in this video, a preview clip from Ubisoft's upcoming Ubidays press event, I get the urge to just wander about. Maybe it's just my recent exposure to Wild Earth: African Safari talking, but what they've created here almost looks too lovely to blow up. Fortunately the way you play the game is just as varied as the vistas you'll encounter. Creative director Clint Hocking sums up the concept of Far Cry 2 quite nicely towards the end of the video.
It's about giving the player the opportunity to play the game he wants to play the way he wants to play it.
That's a concept I can totally get behind, though getting them to include a camera I can use to photograph wildlife might be a bit too much to ask.

10:20 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Mike Fahey
11,855 views, 65 comments

Latest by psychobaka: @hubris: The original Far Cry did an amazing amount of detail without being over-demanding (an above-average PC at release could at least play the damn thing at high settings, unlike Crysis which is still struggling in the best PCs). more »

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The Homes and Graves of Fable 2

Microsoft sent over this pic to us, just for the Kotaku community, of a home in Fable 2 and pointed out that another new screen on the upcoming game's official blog shows off the game's graveyard. I really like the atmospheric look of both screens, especially the second.

I'm told that the Lionhead Video Diary Six has been wrapped and submitted to the Xbox Live marketplace folks for processing and eventual upload onto the Xbox 360 service. The Msoft folks tell me it's the best one to date and that it will focus on "Art and The Hero". Wonder what that means?

10:00 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Brian Crecente
9,517 views, 44 comments

Latest by manlydeadguy: The graveyard shot looks, beautiful. Yet the other shot has some sort of red watermark thing in the middle, awful compression, and no anti-aliasing. Fail Lionhead. Utter fail Kotaku. more »

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Iron Man Behind-The-Scenes

Developer Secret Level displays a pretty firm grasp on the abilities of Iron Man in this developer diary for the game of the same name. It does an IM fan proud to know that the dev team, purchased by Sega specifically for this project, had to figure out a way to create gameplay that Tony Stark couldn't just waltz through. Not only do Secret Level and Sega understand Iron Man, they also understand that it isn't a real developer diary until it's narrated by Electric Playground's Victor Lucas. It's true!

9:40 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Mike Fahey
3,553 views, 18 comments

Latest by ThatsMrOffDutyNinja: Not really an IM fan, but I would give this a shot. more »

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Too Human Development Diary, Silicon Knights Officially Goes Crazy Edition

Some of you will enjoy the gameplay footage in Silicon Knights' latest Too Human developer diary. But make sure that you fast forward to the middle before losing another battle of attention span against the internet. Because this diary features a strange short film called The Goblin Man of Norway. We think it's meant to be a mockumentary. Chronicling the excavation of a faceless mythical artifact, huge orchestration and high production values clash with touches like clearly satirical woolly mammoth maps. It's a gloriously awkward miss, really, like Silicon Knights take Too Human so seriously that they can't even joke about it, even when they try very, very hard. So consider this post the equivalent of making a funny face after eating some food and saying, "This tastes funny. Try it." The Goblin Man of Normandy [NFC]

12:40 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Mark Wilson
7,873 views, 106 comments

Latest by SolInvictus: I found it interesting and liked it, to be honest. I can see where some people are coming from with the anti-Dyack sentiment but the game looks pretty good, and this form of advertising certainly beats the traditional in-your-face "BUY more »

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Video Diary: Offline Multiplayer and Magic in Fable 2

The latest developer diary is up for Fable 2 with appearances by the development team, Peter Molyneux and even Cliff Bleszinski. The diary starts off with Senior programmer Alan Wright talking about the magic of Fable 2. There's no spellbook in the game, instead you set spells to a quick list. Wright's favorite spell is the lightning spell, which causes the victim to flash in and out of a skeleton model as he's being electrocuted. The diary goes on to show some behind the scenes footage of Microsoft's GDC keynote, with a special appearance by Cliff Bleszinski who demands "10 percent more dog" in Fable 2, and gives some time to Molyneux to talk about offline multiplayer in the game.

3:40 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Brian Crecente
3,732 views, 29 comments

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Fighting In Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed Creative Director Patrice Diselets delivers this installment of the AC developer diary, which focuses on the combat of the game, or what happens after you take down your target. He covers the control scheme, weapons, and most importantly - how to escape from an entire city chasing you through the streets, hell bent on tearing you to pieces. If only I had this knowledge back in 92...but that's another story.

11:00 AM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Mike Fahey
6,400 views, 107 comments

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Haze Developer Diary 2


Hopefully this will be the last developer diary for Haze you will see before we get our grubby little paws on the game at E3 this week... hopefully.

11:00 AM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By Brian Crecente
3,472 views, 33 comments

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Clip: Motorstorm Dev Diary

Now this is a developer diary. You've got flying helicopters, you've got a death valley-esque background, you've got strange Captain America references, and, yes, you've got shit blowing up. Brian Crecente

9:00 AM on Wed Jan 31 2007
By Brian Crecente
64 views, 14 comments